Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-25
THE BERLIN BUDGET.
Americans SwarminR at the German
CapitaI-The Kaiser

Americans SwarminR at the German
Capitalize Kaiser.
Copyright 1887 BY james Gordon Bennett.1
BERLIN, Sept. 24.-lNew York Herald
Cable-Special to the BEE. Never before
has there been SO many Americans here at
this season as now. The university is not
yet open, the musical work has scarcely
begun, yet already there are more students
in Berlin than during the busiest portion of
last year. The students of course form O
large proportion of these American residents.
but old stagers here tell me that they notice
not only great increase among the Amer
ican students, but beyond this no.
ticeabe increase in the number of Amer
lean families who come over to
give their children six months or year of
German and music Formerly such families
went to Dresden or soTe smaller city. Now
the tide seems turning toward Berlin.
Whether because Berlin has to certain ex-
tent outgrown sausage and the midday din
ner, or whether from some more intellectual
reason, is not apparent. Whatever the cause
may be, the Americans at any rate fill each
Sunday almost to overflOwing a good-szed
church, supporting several distinguished pro-
fessOrs of music, and have begun to annex to
the United States number of pensioners.
-BERLIN's GROWTH.
Berlin, too, is trying to live up to its new
reputation as city OF residence for foreign
ers. The number of new large buildings
| going up in the main part of the city is some-
thing surprising. With this growth are COM
ing many improvements. Inter den Lin.
| den, for instance, soop to be lighted with
over one hundred electric lamps of 1000
| candle power each. The increase in land
values in the city is even more wonderful
than the number Of the new build.
ings. One of the numerous anniversaries
which rather crowd each other this
month has drawn attention to case
in which plat of land that sold sixty ears
ago for !, 500 thalers, or 4,50O marks, has Just
been resold without buildings for 4e6 900
marks. Fifty years ago, though, was before
Prussia had railroads, and when Berlin's
population was million people less than
notable changes during his time that Ber-
liners will soon be reduced, especially in
September, to the same predicament which
produced All Saints day. Yesterday, tor in
stance, was their anniversary.
| BEER DRANK IN BIsMARCK's HONOR.
Prince Bismarck celebrated quietly at
Friedrich Ruhe his twenty-tfth year as chief
of the Prussian foreign Office. Elsewhere
events were not taken so quietly. At all the
Bismarck reunions men dlned and drank
beer in the chancellOr's honor yesterday.
Fifty years ago at this time was signed an
almost equally notable order-that for the
construction of the first Prussian railway.
1t is recorded, too. that the king signed this
order for the Berlin and Potsdam road with
reluctant impatence, not seeing, as he told
his family, what difference could it make to
any reasonable person whether it took thirty
minutes or three hours to reach Potsdam.
THE KAIsER's ANNIVERSARY.
The good old kaiser, who has seen all
these changes and caused many of them
also has sort of anniversary manufactured
for him in September though not of the
type which will recur next year. Some one
has calculated that the net ages of the
kaiser, Bismark and Maltke will be together
misunderstanding years. If one can
judge by the sprightliness with which the
emperor Studiet art at the exhibition
this week he is mono the worse for his part OF
the $50 years. l notice another good sign
also. Tomorrow, for the first time in two
years he travels without an escort of news
paper men. They followed him all summer,
as we'll as to Kretstetter. Now. though, he
has tired them out and goes to Baden Il
celebrate the Kaiserine's birthday without
the escort Of single nature or foreign
journalist
| OTHER INTERESTING NOTES.
Berlin, with all her growth is not altogether
prosperous, as witness the street car scenes
of the past week. A little child, nicely
dressed and we'll brought up, was carried
into car by a policeman. The child's
screams for its mother were heartbreakin ing.
1t looked like case of los
child ,only, but really the little
girl was on the way to an orphan
asylum, having come trotting into the police
station carrying nicely written card stating
that the mother of three children was able tt
support only two, hence she sacrificed thi
one. Who the mother is was not discovered
but evidently she is woman of culture from
the language of the writing.
From Spermb,lrg is reported AN unusua
case OF long life. A child just born to Pau
Heinze makes the fifth generation now liv
ing of that family.
Metz is still full of pointers changing thu
signs, ETC., to conform to the new law whicl
demands that German names shall replace
French words on all publicly exposed signs
or notices.
Consul-General and Miss Raner hav'
returned from America. They had pleas
ant trip across but are inclined still to be
| little lOnaIv for Raltimor